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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,065 works

Etching of two mounted prisoners led through a street by a jeering crowd of men and women carrying cudgels, beside a building

Hudibras and Ralpho Made Prisoners and Carried to the Stocks (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudib…

William Hogarth, 1721-26

Engraved oval portrait of an older bearded man in a white ruff collar and dark cloak, with Latin inscriptions.

Portrait of Peter Scriverius

Jan van de Velde II, n.d.

Engraving of robed nobles and clergy at a formal oath ceremony in a stone hall, with a writing official at a draped table.

Oath of the Nobles before the Chambre des Comptes

Etienne Pierre Adrien Gois, 1788

Etching of a seated man, a standing woman holding a child, and a bulldog in an interior with a curtain and bust.

The Child and the Bulldog

Marguerite Gérard, 1778

Engraving of a drowsy church congregation, a preacher reading in the pulpit beside an hourglass, and a sleeping woman with a

The Sleeping Congregation

William Hogarth, April 21, 1762

Etched portrait of a seated heavyset man in a buttoned coat and curled wig, beside a desk with a book and quill.

Simon Lord Lovat

William Hogarth, 1746

Engraving of a busy inn yard with a stagecoach, travelers, spectators on a balcony, and marching soldiers at right.

The Stage Coach, or Country Inn Yard

William Hogarth, June 1747

Woodcut of the Birth of the Virgin: an angel above, women attending a newborn in a curtained bed, and a domestic interior.

The Birth of the Virgin, from "The Life of the Virgin" (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crouching male nude hiding his face and body against a dark background.

Study of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) Trying to Hide Himself

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Brown ink and wash study of a seated male nude twisting with one arm outstretched, on aged paper.

Study of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) in Despair

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Ink sketch of a crouching nude male figure bowed over a long staff, drawn with loose contour lines and brown wash.

Study of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) in Despair Trying to Hide Himself

Nicolai Abildgaard, mid-18th-early 19th century

Etching of two women embracing on a cloud, one draped in cloth and one nude, with fine hatched sky and clouds.

Mythological Scene, possibly Diana Seducing Callisto

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1764

Sepia drawing of a garden with an obelisk, colonnade, swans on a pond, and couples strolling among trees.

The Progress of Love

Pierre Antoine Mongin, 1803

Etching of the Expulsion of Hagar: an angel above a grieving woman and child, a bearded man, and onlookers before classical c

The Expulsion of Hagar

Charles Massé, 1646-70

Engraving of a shepherd and cow leading sheep to drink at a stream while women and children gather on the right.

The miracle of the bitter water made sweet (Il Miracolo delle Acque Amare Mutate in Dolci)

Pietro Monaco, 1743-63

Etching of Esau leaving with his family, sheep, dogs, horses and a donkey through a rocky landscape beside a large tree.

Esau and his family parting ways with Jacob (Esau con le mogli figli e sostanze si separa dal fratello Giacobbe)

Pietro Monaco, 1743-63

Engraving of a shepherd driving sheep and loaded donkeys past a tree in a rocky landscape with distant travelers.

Departure of David the Shepherd from the House of His Father (Partenza di David pastore dalla casa paterna)

Pietro Monaco, 1743-63

Engraving of a turbaned shepherd on horseback leading sheep and an ox across a stream, with trees and clouds in the backgroun

One of the Sons of Noah who Goes to Populate a Part of the Earth (Uno de figli di Noè che va a popolare una parte del…

Pietro Monaco, 1743-63

Engraving of a shepherd and woman tending sheep, goats and cattle by a pool, with a village and fisherman in the distance.

Jacob tending Laban's flock (Giacobbe, che pasce l'armento di Labano)

Pietro Monaco, 1743-63

Etching of two shepherds resting under a tree with a donkey, bread, a pitcher and sheep grazing in a distant landscape.

Two shepherds, a donkey and other animals in a landscape

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1638-40

Man wearing a small turban, facing right, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-50

Engraving of a river landscape with a waterfall, stone bridge, castle tower, fishermen in a rowboat and a leaning tree.

Vue Proche du Mont-Ferrat

Jean-Jacques Le Veau

Etching of a bearded man in bust view, turned right, with curly hair and cross-hatched shading on his draped shoulder.

Bust of a Bearded Man

Guido Reni, ca. 1600-40

Etching of a seated woman raising compasses while a winged putto stands at right beside a table and pitcher.

Seated woman holding a tablet and compass (allegory of learning), a winged putto at right

Guido Reni, ca. 1600-40

Etching of the Entombment showing a nude body with outstretched legs surrounded by grieving figures under a cloudy sky.

The Entombment; Christ with legs outstretched, the Virgin at right

Guido Reni, 1590-1600

Five numbered etched scenes of mythological figures including Jupiter, the Fates and Mars, with text panels below.

Five numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, from IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTINO CARRACCIO F…

Guido Reni, 1603

Etching of Saint Roch distributing alms to a crowd of beggars, women and children beneath an arcaded classical colonnade.

Saint Roch at left distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him, after Annibale Caracci

Francesco Brizio, ca. 1590-1600

Etching of a foliage-covered triumphal arch with a papal coat of arms, with a crowd of mounted figures gathered beneath it.

Triumphal arch covered in foliage with mounted troops below, a temporary decoration for the entry of Pope Clement VII…

Guido Reni, 1599

Etching of a tall fluted triumphal column topped by a trumpeting female figure, set in an arcaded courtyard under a cloudy sk

Triumphal column with female figure of Fame holding a trumpet at the top, a temporary decoration for the entry of Pop…

Guido Reni, 1598

Etching of the Virgin and Christ Child with an elderly man with a staff and a veiled woman holding a lamp.

The Holy Family with Saint Clare

Guido Reni, 1590-1600